Clifford Geertz Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

• Understanding a people's culture exposes their normalness without reducing their particularity...It renders them accessible: setting them in the frame of their own banalities, it dissolves their opacity.

  Clifford Geertz

  People, Understanding, Culture

• [Culture] denotes an historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied in symbols, a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms, by means of which men communicate, perpetuate, and develop their knowledge about and attitudes toward life.

  Clifford Geertz

  Attitude, Mean, Men

  Clifford Geertz (1973). “The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays”, p.89, Basic Books

• Believing, with Max Weber, that man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun, I take culture to be those webs, and the analysis of it to be therefore not an experimental science in search of law but an interpretive one in search of meaning.

  Clifford Geertz

  Believe, Hero, Animal

  Clifford Geertz (1973). “The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays”, p.5, Basic Books

• Culture is public, because meaning is

  Clifford Geertz

  Culture

  Clifford Geertz (1973). “The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays”, p.12, Basic Books

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